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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Renfe expects to close tomorrow an agreement that allows drivers call off strikes – EntornoInteligente

Expand / If not, the next strikes will take place on 24 and 29 June and 1 July.

The Spanish Union of Machinists and Helpers Railwaymen (Semaf) and address Renfe will meet again on Monday to try to close an agreement on the employment plan of the company that allows desconvocatoria of strikes scheduled.

so said union sources, once the round of negotiations that began last Wednesday and allowed desconvocatoria strike scheduled for Thursday.

Since that day there were progress on materials such as grants, contracts, layoffs and mobility, which enabled bring positions between the company and the machinists union.

Before that turning point machinists conducted three days of strikes that were marked by discrepancies between company and union on the grounds that caused not entirely lend minimum services.

the main point of conflict is the development of the employment plan, which includes a set of outputs ordered machinists it must be covered with the arrival of new staff, as well as increased freight services and metric wide.

for the Semaf, 340 new places offered by Renfe are totally insufficient to cover the volume of outputs of the last two years, some 750, of which about 330 have already been covered so as to be produced at the end of 2016, initially 839, of which 670 are engineers currently driving.

the union believes that at least should be extended in an additional 500 places the job for this group and more so considering that the deadline for someone to be entitled to drive a train is between 14 and 16 months.

the Semaf stresses the need to rejuvenate the staff, since 5,200 machinists, only about 500 are young. In fact, 85% has more than 31 years driving trains as a result of not entered any in the company between 1985 and 2008.

Therefore, the union has challenged this call employment, which reaches 522 new posts in all groups, which have also made other unions CCOO and Railway Union.

Renfe expects to close tomorrow an agreement with the machinists that allows call off strikes

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